SCRANTON — The former fiscal manager for the Children’s Advocacy Center of Northeastern Pennsylvania has been sentenced to just over a year in prison after she was found guilty of defrauding the nonprofit organization of over $400,000.
Angela Saar, 51, of Olyphant, was sentenced May 29 to one year and one day behind bars, followed by three years of supervised release, by Senior United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion for wire fraud related to her ongoing theft from the children’s advocacy organization in Scranton, according to the United States attorney’s office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Saar has been ordered to surrender herself to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons on or before June 20.
According to Acting United States Attorney John C. Gurganus, from November 2018 to June 2022, while employed as the fiscal manager, Saar engaged in a scheme to defraud the organization.
During her tenure, Saar diverted fraudulent payments of various kinds from the organization’s bank accounts into her personal bank accounts for her benefit.
Some of the diverted payments involved fraudulent mileage reimbursements, while others involved Saar inflating her biweekly paychecks by thousands of dollars.
The total amount of restitution ordered payable to the organization by the court is $411,940.
The Children’s Advocacy Center is a tax-exempt nonprofit whose mission is to provide assessment and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
Saar also similarly defrauded a second charitable organization in Lackawanna County for which she paid restitution prior to her sentencing in this matter, according to the United States attorney’s office.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case.